bsdly.net - articles and other pieces Peter Hansteen has written

Note: You will find a number of shorter pieces as blog postings over at
bsdly.blogspot.com, and of course
there is The Book of
PF, the third edition published 2014 (1st edition December 2007) by No Starch Press.

The documents referenced below are samples of stuff I've written on
my own initiative (that is, not under contract with anybody) over the years. Some of it is in Norwegian, some
in English.

[English] Slides and almost complete notes for a
talk I prepared about the RFC1149 implementation, almost five years after the event itself. Presented at the Adelaide
Linux User Group and as a gap filler at AUUG 2005.

[English] This patch, which adds some more PF info to the FreeBSD Handbook's firewalls chapter, was commited to the FreeBSD documentation tree in June 2013. Any further work should be coordinated with the FreeBSD doc project, but I welcome comments.

[English] It seemed like an excellent idea at the time, so in October 2006 I wrote a draft for install documentation for the BSDStats system. This probably needs more work, but it's BSD licensed, so if you feel like it, please make yourself my co-author on this!

[English] A bizarre incident involving spam and incompetence during the 2006-2007 winter months is summarized here. These events occured while I was working on an
early version of my BSDCan 2007 paper
(available here
(pdf)). [en bisarr episode der spam og inkompetanse er de viktigste komponentene, klikk på referansene for mer info.]

[English] Slides for a DocBook presentation, translated
from the BLUG slides below just in case I would need them (and I was actively trying to push this to customers at the time)

[Norwegian] Norwegian authorities have put together a list of IP addresses they consider sources of kiddie porn.
According to a recent news item, addresses on that list get approximately 15,000 hits per day from Norwegian
Internet users. Are we a nation of child molesters? In Er naboen din en av femten tusen barnepornogriser?,
("Is your neighbor one of fifteen thousand kiddie porn swine?") I argue that there are other, more likely
and less sinister explanations. Short version: what they're seeing is naive Microsoft users reading and probably deleting their spam.

[Norwegian] rbl-episode-in-sticksville.txt og bonehead.txt
er hjernedump til tekstfil av noen reelle hendelser jeg hadde tenkt å skrive mer om, men jeg kom bare ikke så langt.
Litt fnisemateriale hvis du er geekete nok. [these two brain dumps to text file are notes from real events, at one time or
other I thought it might be useful to develop those into articles, but I never got around to doing that. worth a few
minutes if you're geeky enough and you read Norwegian.]

And of course, you will find traces of just how much time I've spent on USENET and mailing lists if you're all that interested.
Here is one thread from just before the turn of the century to get you started ;) (yes, a slightly less permissive filtering setup was only minutes away).